(September 1, 2015 at 4:40 pm)abaris Wrote: China combines the worst of both worlds. A totalitarian system and unchained capitalism.
Words have meanings, and should be used for accuracy, not effect.
China is not a totalitarian state by the standard normally applied to qualify Soviet Union and Nazi Germany to be totalitarian states. It's highly authoritarian, but rather less authoritarian than many right wing dictatorships the west supported during the Cold War that were deemed less than totalitarian.
The capitalism in China is not unchained. It is overtly not subject to some of the constraints which the American system would like the world to think the American system binds itself with. But it is subject to powerful central planning and control influence, which the capitalists in China defy at serious risk to their own lives, that the America has never seen except during WWII.
